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(No ModeL) J. MOGOVERN.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE. No. 304.438. Patented sept. Z, 1884.

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NITED STATES JOHN MOGOVERN, OF LIVERPOOL, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,438, datedSeptember 2, 1884. Application filed May "I, 1884. (No model.) Patentedin England September 1, 1883, No. 4,221.

- To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN MOGOVERN, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Liverpool, county ofLancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCigars and Cigarettes, of which the following is adescription.

I find from experiments that if tobacco be flavored with tolu and otherflavorings the cigarettes and cigars are much improved; but thedifficulty has been to flavor them. If the tobacco is steeped in asolution of the flavor ing, the quality is injured, and this is alsoforbidden in Great Britain, at least by the excise. The drying withoutalso evaporating the flavoring or injuring the tobacco is a difficultoperation, and some of the flavorings I employ have a tendency to causethe tobacco to go out, as with the filling of the pores the tendency tosmolder is diminished. I find, however, that cotton or linen twistedfiber-has a great absorbing effect, and that such material can beimpregnated with the flavorings and yet smolder when surrounded bytobacco, especially if it be made in the manner set forth, with ahighly-oxygenated body as one of its ingredients. There are several suchbodiesnitrate of soda or of potash, chlorate of potash or of soda, orthe permanganates. The first mentioned, though the cheapest, causes amoldering to take place in the cigarette, and is therefore inadmissible.The sec ond, under some circumstances, gives out nitrous fumes, so isobjectionable. The permanganates and chloratcs are therefore to bepreferred. The fiber is steeped in an aqueous solution of chlorate ofsoda or potash or of-permanganate of potash and dried. It is then dippedin an alcoholic solution of the flavoring, and dried in such manner asto enable the alcohol given off to be collected and condensed. These twooperations may be reversed, or in some cases, where the flavoringmaterial is soluble in water and will not be decomposed by lengthenedcontact with the oxygenated compound, a combined aqueous solution of thevarious materials may be employed. The fibrous thread thus prepared isplaced in the center of the cigarette or cigar, and thus a pleasantaroma therefrom is emitted as it is being smoked or consumed.

The accompanying drawing is a sectional view of a cigarette, A, made inaccordance with my invention, showing the flavored cord or roll offlavored paper a in the center, the tobacco 7) round it, and theordinary paper envelope, 0, forming the exterior layer.

The exact quantities of ingredients, and even the ingredientsthemselves, vary greatly with individual taste. WVhen tolu only, or witha slight addition of lavender, is the flavoring, the need forhighly-oxygenated material is not great; but when aromatic gums orincenses of more incombustible or impervious nature are added it isuseful to add a highly-oxygenated material, as before described, to givethem an equal combustibility with the tobacco.

I do not bind myself to tape or even textile material for an absorbentof the incense, as blotting-paper and other unsized cellulose materialwill do equally efficaciously, nor to tolu, as there are a great varietyof balsams and fragrant resins and gums that are well known to produce apleasant aroma when allowed to smolder, and the composition of theincense will differ with individual taste, several varieties being soldin one shopone perhaps tolu only, another tolu and lavender, and so on.

I am aware that it is not new to treat leaftobacco with solutions ofpotash or soda for the purpose of modifying the effects of the nicotinewhen smoked; also, that it is old to combine aromatic gums and resinswith cigars and cigarettes by applying solutions thereof to the tobaccoor cigarette-paper, so that they will afford a perfume when the articleis consumed; and I therefore do not claim such means, broadly, myinvention consisting in In testimony whereof I have signed my name tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. MOGOVERN,

WVitnesses:

WM. 1?. THOMPSON, I. O. OBRIEN.

